CH 197.1

Act 14: Daily Live in the School Tower

Chapter 197.1: Exploration Plan

The second day of living in the school tower was the same as the previous day, gathering food ingredients and upgrading materials.

Our current priority was hunting to gather raw materials for equipment and food. Among the usable material in this area, none of them seemed to be suited for Rem’s upgrade, they were mostly plant or timber with some wreckage from the ruin.

I decided to start with something that could be made with alchemy immediately.

「Okay, let’s deliver the pants.」

The reason everyone looked extremely delighted when I said so was only natural after they lived a harsh survival life for so long in this dungeon.

I mean, we were literally thrown into this dungeon only wearing the school uniform on our bodies. Our only change of clothes was a jersey.

Since that was the case, what happened to their pants, shirt, or underwear was something that did not need to be questioned.

It was naturally hand washed with water from fairy plaza and fruit soap before reusing the same pants after that. And if a small chance, the said pants were torn…

Well, that matter aside, thanks to the combination of Arachne’s spider thread and mine, it’s possible to mass-produce pants, shirts, and socks. As for the size, it could be adjusted with simple alchemy.

Nevertheless, adjusting the size for 18 people was truly a tough job. Yeah, as the one responsible for measuring the underwear size of the girls too, I noted down their three sizes too.

Since Takanashi-san was responsible to adjust the size, I gave the ready-made huge underwear to her along with the adjustment. In regard to bras, I had the experience of making one for Mei-chan before.

Thus, I was wondering if I should give a few ungrateful bitches, who looked at me with cold piercing gazes when they saw a perfectly made bra in my hand, a sarashi instead.

[TN: Sarashi; long cloth wrapped around woman’s br*asts.]

「Haah, nothing can beat a new ite~m.」

「We can finally wear socks again.」

「Now, we don’t have to wear goma’s used clothes anymo~re」

The Totem Pole Trio, who had experienced harsh survival life, was truly delighted to wear brand-new underwear. And yes, socks were prone to get dirty easily, after all. Even the US Army suffered a lot during the Vietnam war when they had to walk in muddy marshland with soppy wet socks.

「Thank you, thank you very much, Momokawa.」

「Both are a perfect fit.」

From the way JuryMary combi spoke, it seemed they had two pairs of underwear from the very beginning. As for why they had two pairs of underwear with them, well, it was for an emergency situation I guess.

However, since Randou-san entrusted her leopard print underwear to Rem, it meant that she wasn’t going commando since she still kept another piece of underwear.

Wait a minute, since she lent me her black underwear last night, could it be that currently, Randou-san was… I see… so that is the reason she is wearing a jersey today.

「Hey Momokawa, can you make a leopard print design?」

「It should be possible with simple alchemy, but do you by chance favour underwear with a leopard print design?」

「What about you, Momokawa?」

「The design is up to your preference. That’s why I think it suits you quite well Randou-san.」

「Hehehe~, ri~ght?」

Yeah, that’s right. The leopard print underwear suited Randou-san. Understanding one’s own charm was the first step to being fashionable. I loved her super erotic style.

「What a relief, Kotaro-kun, everyone is clearly pleased with it.」

「Yeah.」

「So why am I the only one who got chest wrap…」

That should be what you wanted to wear right, Sakura-chan? The look on your face seems like you’re unwilling to wear the underwear made by me after all.

Well then, all that was left to tune was the size of the distributed underwear at the end of the second day. By the time I was done with the job, the sun had already set, and it was already time for dinner.

Mei-chan, the person in charge of meals started to lead the girls who got appointed as her assistant to mass-produce preserved food. That’s why, for today’s dinner, aside from eating the usual menu, we’re also sampling the first result of sun-dried meat and air-dried meat. I felt some sense of obsession when Mei-chan presented dry fruit too.

Nonetheless, the ability to instantly pickle and air dry the preserved food wasn’t simple in alchemy, it was thanks to 『Witch’s Kettle』. Honestly, I was really glad to see that my skill had such an advantage.

By the way, the place we used as a dining room, where we ate together, was the fairy plaza. The reason was that place was the closest to the water source, the fountain. In that way, we could also directly pick our own drinking water.

Since there was extra space in this huge fairy plaza, I assumed that this one was built for gathering many people, I actually wanted to add a table and chair too, but decided to leave it for the following day.

Thus, I prepared a huge, makeshift low table and everyone was sitting on the lawn. Well, this situation was much better since no one could even get a proper meal before.

「There’s something I wanted to tell everyone while we eat… I think we’ve to look for proper equipment starting tomorrow.」

Since there were a lot of monsters and animals living in this dungeon, especially in the beach resort area of the deserted island, we wouldn’t have a problem with food for the time being. After gathering food ingredients for two days, I think we just needed to dispatch enough personnel to maintain our stock of food ingredients.

The empty treasure chest was an excellent storage container. It could keep even the easily perishable ingredient fresh far longer than the refrigerator.

As for the other method of storing our food, we could use Class Rep’s 『Ice』 spell in a readily available room combined with Randou-san’s 『Eternity』 spell to turn the room into a giant refrigerator. Thus, we had no worries about preserving a large number of ingredients while living in the school tower.

「We need the core of Living Armor’s class monster. And treasure chest.」

「Basically, the aim is to fight against a strong monster, but we’ve hardly managed to raise our level before coming to this place, that’s why I want everyone to do their best to use this chance to raise their level.」

Everyone nodded upon hearing Class Rep’s explanation. Naturally, everyone but Tendou-kun who went to the side of the water fountain to smoke after he finished his meal.

「Well then, I’ll announce the exploration party for tomorrow.」

Thus, I jotted down the party composition on the blackboard that had already been prepared beforehand.

Naturally, the blackboard was made with alchemy. It was one size smaller than the one we used in the school but big enough for everyone to see. And the only one who could make a blackboard of this size was Takanashi Kotori.

It was made from the black rock scattered in the wasteland. It was a simple lithograph called blackboard, not a real blackboard, just dark enough to be called blackboard. The material for chalk was a pumice-like stone that was also scattered in the wasteland.

For some reason, I remembered the scene of a painter picking up a stone from the road from a long time ago in Japan.

Even more important was the party composition that Class Rep and I wracked our brain’s over.

1st Exploration Party

Captain:『Hero』 Souma Yuuto

Vice Captain:『Healer』Himeno Airi

『Warrior』Nakai Shouta

『Heavy Warrior』Yamada Genki

『Warrior』Yoshizaki Maria

Rem The 3rd

2nd Exploration Party

Captain:『Cyromancer』Kisaragi Ryouko

Vice Captain:『Saint』Souma Sakura

『Twin Swordsman』Kenzaki Asuna

『Magic Swordsman』Nakajima Haruma

『Swordsman』Ueda Youhei

Rem The 1st 『Black Knight』

Rem The 4th 『Minotaurs』

Hunting Team

Captain:『Aquamancer』Shimokawa Junnosuke

『Thief』Natsukawa Minami

『Knight』Nonomiya Julia

Rem The 2nd 『Arachne』

「That’s the gist of it but, anybody has questions?」

「Something about the balance seems to be off.」

「Hey, are you sure about this party composition?」

No one literally raised their hands to question us about this party composition, but they were murmuring among themselves.

Well, I expected this reaction. Truth was, we made this arrangement to separate people who were in the same party until now. That’s why they felt insecure about this arrangement.

「As for the reason for this arrangement… Class Rep, it’s your turn to explain to them」

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